Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Sandy Eyster, Ph.D.

Deputy Director of ESSI-Statistics

Sandy Eyster, Ph.D., is Deputy Director of ESSI-Statistics for the Federal Statistics Program. She oversees about 20 projects spanning the areas of early childhood, household surveys, adult and vocational education, international surveys and annual reports. She also provides senior technical support to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the National Household Education Surveys Programs. Her areas of specialization include statistics and survey research methods. Prior to joining AIR, she was a Survey Statistician at the U.S. Bureau of the Census and also applied advanced demographic techniques to the documentation of war crimes and human rights violations in Kosovo. Dr. Eyster received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from The George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.